Permission to read your books online?

Comment:

I am a 3rd Grade Teacher in Hoven, South Dakota. Everyday I read for 15 minutes your Boy vs. Girls series and they absolutely love them. As you know some of our nations schools are on lockdown because of the corona virus. So we are going to e learning with our students. I want to continue reading to my students your books. I plan on video recording myself reading to them. Are you ok with this or do I have to have permission to do so. Please let me know. We will be starting this on Monday.
Thank you,

Phyllis replied:

I’ve been getting these messages all afternoon and was able to reach my editor at home.  Here is the answer to educators wanting to read from my books online:  You may do so as long as the reading is put in on a private “channel,” accessible only to  your classroom or school (not youtube) and only for this particular crisis.  I hope this helps, as being read to aloud by my parents long after I learned to read myself, was perhaps my fondest memory of childhood.

Posted on: March 17, 2020

 

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